According to Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=21223), it's only suposed to get up to 275K, and that not until afternoon, so I'm not counting on a lot of melting on this side, the shady side, of the street.
Earlier, the television news (and I think the web as well, but I'm not sure) said the snow would continue "possibly through 1 AM"), so around then I went out to shovel 'cause I hadn't fallen asleep yet, I won't feel like dealing with it in the morning, and I'm expecting visitors. It was still snowing. At a significant rate.
I shovelled anyhow 'cause I figured it'd be stopping soon. Now, a couple of hours later, it's still snowing, there's enough on the sidewalk that I'll need to shovel again in the morning anyhow, and the forecast has been changed to say "stopping around dawn" and "one more inch". I've been tricked. (Fortunately the area I have to shovel isn't huge. Unfortunately, I'm out of rock salt.) If there weren't pedestrian traffic past my house, I wouldn't pay as much attention to it. If it were a driveway, for example, I'd just wait until I needed it clear for my own use and hope I didn't piss off the postman by doing so.
The parts that were just snow went quickly. The icy stripe where people had walked took some effort to get the shovel under. As expected.
Then there's the whole "is Baltimore going to declare a snow emergency?" issue ... along with "are they going to issue street-cleaning-day parking tickets even though it's obvious that there'll be no street cleaning?"
I'm thinking about this way more than it deserves.
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Earlier, the television news (and I think the web as well, but I'm not sure) said the snow would continue "possibly through 1 AM"), so around then I went out to shovel 'cause I hadn't fallen asleep yet, I won't feel like dealing with it in the morning, and I'm expecting visitors. It was still snowing. At a significant rate.
I shovelled anyhow 'cause I figured it'd be stopping soon. Now, a couple of hours later, it's still snowing, there's enough on the sidewalk that I'll need to shovel again in the morning anyhow, and the forecast has been changed to say "stopping around dawn" and "one more inch". I've been tricked. (Fortunately the area I have to shovel isn't huge. Unfortunately, I'm out of rock salt.) If there weren't pedestrian traffic past my house, I wouldn't pay as much attention to it. If it were a driveway, for example, I'd just wait until I needed it clear for my own use and hope I didn't piss off the postman by doing so.
The parts that were just snow went quickly. The icy stripe where people had walked took some effort to get the shovel under. As expected.
Then there's the whole "is Baltimore going to declare a snow emergency?" issue ... along with "are they going to issue street-cleaning-day parking tickets even though it's obvious that there'll be no street cleaning?"
I'm thinking about this way more than it deserves.